Ubisoft launches studio to make its games into movies, TV shows

I'd love to see a Splinter Cell movie adaptation that hopefully wouldn't suck. But honestly, I haven't seen The Sands of Time yet... but then again, I never liked Prince of Persia for some weird reason.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad Idea, remember Doom? We have a hard enough time coming up with good ideas, last thing we need is to spend energy on turning the bad ones into movies. What ever story it is, it should stick to it's original medium.

yRaz said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad Idea, remember Doom? We have a hard enough time coming up with good ideas, last thing we need is to spend energy on turning the bad ones into movies. What ever story it is, it should stick to it's original medium.

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Doom was destroyed my hollywood; it could have been so much better, but it probably would have still sucked. =p

yRaz said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad Idea, remember Doom? We have a hard enough time coming up with good ideas, last thing we need is to spend energy on turning the bad ones into movies. What ever story it is, it should stick to it's original medium.

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Speak for yourself. I'll watch The Rock tear it up Doom-style every day of the week. Plus, it made almost 82 million.

The fact that it was poorly directed and the acting sucked balls doesn't mean they should stop trying

I'd definitely go see a Splinter Cell or Assasin's Creed movie, even though I've never played either.

yRaz said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad Idea, remember Doom? We have a hard enough time coming up with good ideas, last thing we need is to spend energy on turning the bad ones into movies. What ever story it is, it should stick to it's original medium.

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I actually think that it would be better for the movies. Who better to make a game-based movie than the very same people who made the games? I think gamers would be happier to see a true-to-story movie than some bastardized version bearing no resemblance to the game and its universe ala Doom.

However, I could see the quality of the game stories go down as they run out of ideas to share with or differentiate from each other.

I actually think that a videogame based series put out on HBO might have a much better shot at success in terms of quality and reception. Movies try to cram too much into too little, and often rely on CGI and action to the detriment of the plot.

A 15 episode season dealing with Assassin's Creed would allow you to delve into character development and plot arcs much more effectively than a 90 minute film. And with such a franchise, you basically can set it in any time period and location, giving it a very long shelf life and allow for multiple seasons.

wagan8r said:
I'd definitely go see a Splinter Cell or Assasin's Creed movie, even though I've never played either.

yRaz said:
Am I the only one who thinks this is a bad Idea, remember Doom? We have a hard enough time coming up with good ideas, last thing we need is to spend energy on turning the bad ones into movies. What ever story it is, it should stick to it's original medium.

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I actually think that it would be better for the movies. Who better to make a game-based movie than the very same people who made the games? I think gamers would be happier to see a true-to-story movie than some bastardized version bearing no resemblance to the game and its universe ala Doom.

However, I could see the quality of the game stories go down as they run out of ideas to share with or differentiate from each other.

I'd love a Splinter Cell movie, but I just can't imagine who'd they use for it. Michael Ironside's voice is 90% of what makes Sam Fisher so badass, but the man is getting old, and he doesn't quite look like his game character....

Anyways, I can't believe no one's mentioned it yet, but a Crysis movie or show? :O
Edit: Whoops, nvm, I forgot who the franchise belongs to..

I would like to see a movie based on Ghost Recon. Isn't that franchise still with Ubisoft ? They had this kickass live action trailer for the new Ghost Recon game sometime last year but sadly no more updates on when the game is supposed to be released.